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 Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:46 pm
Ebony nodded to him, "Thanks Geth...Could you hand me the scissors in that trunk next to you? I can pull the stitches from these claw marks now...," she said simply as she checked each one over carefully, shaking her head over some of them. It was obvious that the pair after her had meant to hurt her before they killed her and she was doing her best to keep her temper in check.
Sasha looked over at the mam when he spoke, only now realizing that he was actually a dragon. In the process of looking at him, Ebony got a good look at her eyes and frowned at her, making her drop her head again.
She was still fairly new to being a dragon and really didn't have much of an idea on how to react to him, though she did admit to herself that from a human point of view he was fairly striking to look at.
Ebony gave her a gentle pat on the shoulder and smiled at her, "You'll have to forgive Sasha a bit, she was raised human and had no idea that she was a dragon until her first shift a few years ago...," she told Geth, making Sasha look at her sharply.
She'd only spoken the once and Ebony was failing at getting her to speak again... The younger female really had a sweet voice that matched her sweet nature....
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:52 pm
|Geth Vaurn|
Geth handed Ebony a pair of scissors. The wounds on Sasha were very disturbing- the dragons that had done this to the young one were very sadistic. Any hunter who sought to wound and not kill could only be a monster. If Geth got the chance...
"You said she could not hunt? I could go down and bring a kill for her... But I haven't shifted in quite some time."
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:42 pm
Ebony gave him a look of relief before she started on the stitches, "That would be wonderful! And as I told you back then, once you shift, you never forget how. There's the landing ledge, go ahead," she told him simply, giving him no sympathy at all.
Then she went to work removing the stitches from the claw marks, "And after you eat, Sasha, we'll get you down to the lake so that you can take a bath and get rid of the itches you're bound to be feeling right now...," she added, part of her wondering if she should take the girl or if Lao should...
She wasn't sure how much Geth had grown in the time since she'd been his guide so she wasn't sure if she should ask him or not...
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 1:33 pm
Bane eventually pulled himself up and shook the sand from his body. It was a nice nap and for once he was glad he didn't dream. He turned his head up and sniffed.
Something smelled wrong.
He looked around and soon spotted a ripple in the air. He stared long and hard at it before the ripple began to move?
He charged at it and the ripple split open and a man wearing the armor of pure dragon scales stepped out a grin on his face. Bane was taken by surprise but managed to let loose a roar as he blew a massive column of fire at the stranger.
The stranger closed his visor and stood there, the fire not affecting him. He laughed as the flames blew over his armor.
He said something in a hissing tone and Bane's eyes widened before he felt magic in the air, suddenly constrict tightly around his legs, forearms, and neck. He had a wild look in his eyes as he sent a message to Lao in his mind.
"Protect my baby~!"
Bane felt his mind go blank as he ran out of air and he passed out as the man in scaled armor ran to him, placed a hand on him and both vanished through the ripped portal the stranger had first come through.
The only thing to show that Bane was even there were the burnt trees around the area.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:20 pm
|Geth Vaurn|
Geth shrugged, making his way to the landing ledge. It wasn't that he felt he forgot how to shift... it had been hundreds of years since he done anything as a dragon. That included flying and hunting... hoping that instinct would take over for him, he began the shift. On average, a fully grown dragon was about as big as a two story house, but Geth wasn't an average dragon. Once he had shifted, he stood at three and a half stories with black scales that glinted when the light hit them. Feathery spines lined his back, from the top of his head to the end of his tail, which flicked back and forth unknowingly. The leathery membranes of his wings were a dark gray, and he flexed them cautiously... He stepped further out on the ledge and took off, relieved that he didn't make an a** of himself and botch the takeoff in front of Ebony, Lao, and Sasha.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:40 pm
While he was gone, Ebony removed the stitches from Sasha's body and rubbed a special oil into the claw marks that showed a pale gray against the grayed white of her scales, making the dark woman shake her head sadly over it all...
It took her a good while and when she stepped back she heard Geth's wingbeats heralding his return. She moved to small basin in the corner and washed the oils off of her hands as she heard him land on the ledge...
Sasha was pleased to have the worst of her itching taken care of by the oils that Ebony had rubbed into her claw marks, saying nothing of how the gray slashes now marred her once beautiful scales.
She was finally allowed to lay down, grateful for that since her legs were shaking and she was feeling so tired all of a sudden.... Not used to moving as much as she had been today... Of course, spending weeks laying in the back of a cavern so that her father wouldn't have to worry about her doing anything stupid might have something to do with that...
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:55 pm
Lao had given Geth a respectful nod. He was well aware of the dragon before him, and he currently was in his own winged form, given the caverns were not big enough to support his true form. Looking back to where his own children were playing, his expression softened before a message played inside his mind, something like a cry for help. The voice was male, and the message was one that he understood very well. Lao was immediately on his feet, and dashed outside towards the ledge that oversaw his domain, his keen eyes looking about to find the whereabouts of the old king.
"Ebony." He called back into the cavern, his look expressing concern and anger. "Come here... Leave Geth and Sasha to talk and acquaint themselves. We have an emergency." He stated lowly, his tone causing their cavern to quake at the stirring rage of the Mountain Emperor.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:14 pm
|Geth Vaurn|
Still in his dragon form, Geth had five deer carcasses clutched in his talons, which he carried over to Sasha. Placing them before her, he watched as Ebony went to go speak with her mate in private. His head snaked back to Sasha and he lay down on one of the cushions, a bit uncomfortable in his true form.
"I am Geth Vaurn, but Geth will do. How long have you known you were a dragon?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:49 pm
Part of her wanted to reach over and simply get started on one of the deer but held back for the moment and answered his question instead, "Only about five years or so, I guess... I was raised on the main island in the human village... Served in the castle for a while as well until-" she stopped there, still unable to say Rail's name just yet, the loss of him still raw within her.
She still bore the scarred bite mark from her mating on her shoulder, though it was already showing signs of fading since he'd died, proving that they'd had a very short time together....
Ebony moved over to Lao without a problem but with a question on her face and a bit of worry as well, "What is it?" she asked him in a soft enough voice that they wouldn't be overheard.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:59 pm
|Geth Vaurn|
"You may eat, little one."
Geth simply sat in silence, reacquainting himself with the senses his true form had. He watched her begin to eat, his eyes examining the mating scar on her shoulder. It must have been hard for such a young dragon to have lost a mate. It wasn't something that he would have been able to go through when he was a young dragon. Then again, he wasn't so sure about that. He hadn't been young in a long time.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:01 pm
"Bane is gone." Lao stated simply, looking back at Sasha and Geth before back at Ebony. "He left me a final message before his disappearance, asking us to protect his baby. That was all he said before I lost track of him. Something has happened.... Something terrible. I do not believe he left willingly either...." The Emperor whispered before slowly laying down, his eyes spotting a patch of smoke off in the distance. "Sasha may not recover from this at all.... Loss of her mate and her father; she will become a pitiful wreck, and unless she finds it in herself to continue on, she will degrade into a simple, mindless mess..."
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:12 pm
Sasha couldn't resist it that time and snagged one of the deer, tearing into it as if she hadn't eaten in a week, though it had only been several days. Still, she was injured and would need more food to replenish what her body was using up to heal...
It wasn't long before the deer was little more than bones and she eyed another but held back while she made sure that her stomach would keep the first one down, turning to the male as she cleaned her face as best as she could.
"What of you, Geth?" she asked him softly, finding herself wondering a little about him.
Ebony gave a soft sigh and looked at Sasha over her shoulder, grateful to see that she'd eaten at least one of the deer, then turned back to Lao and reached over to rub behind his eye ridges a bit, "Then we don't tell her yet... We simply say that he contacted you saying he was headed to the dragon realm to try to get the others to come here instead of being hidebound idiots... That she'll probably believe...," she told him softly, though she wondered how long they could keep that one up...
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:27 pm
|Stuff happens on Draconia|
Geth rolled his shoulders in a shrug; there wasn't much to tell the small dragoness. Thoughtfully, he blew smoke through his nose. Finally, he said,
"At one time, I was a warrior, back in the days that humans revered dragons. I spent a few centuries fighting in the name of the Dragon Emperor before I retired. Since then, I have spent most of my time living amongst the humans. They are much more agreeable to be around, now that they think we do not exist. It was hell, having to defend dragon roosts against the humans after defending the humans for so long..."
Maris' boat reached the shores of Draconia, and she looked around. For an island called Draconia, it had a very specific lack of, well, dragons. Well, damn, she thought. She had hoped there would be a welcoming committee, because she was not looking forward to dragging an unconscious elf all around the island. She sighed, looking back to the elf laying in the boat.
"You're lucky I'm such a nice person, you know that?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:35 pm
Sasha tilted her head at him a bit, "Sounds like an interesting life... More than what I've ever known, certainly... Since I was brought her as a baby, I've never left the island...," she looked around the cavern briefly, "Well, until now...," she corrected herself before she lowered her head to her forelegs, still looking up at him.
Honestly? It would have looked alot more cute if her wings hadn't been bandaged and splinted...
Layla barely made a sound at all as the woman spoke to her, not really enough energy to moan softly, though she had managed a few of those on the journey.
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:01 pm
|Stuff happens on Draconia.|
"You are still young. You will have your own stories to tell by the time you reach my age,"
He replied, skating around the subject of what had happened to her recently. That wasn't something she wanted to talk about right now. When she looked up at him, he couldn't help but chuckle, the laugh rumbling in the back of his throat. Even if she didn't try, Sasha was being more than a little adorable.
Maris sighed. She would have to take care of the elf's wounds, make sure they didn't get infected before they could get healed. She had a medical kit strapped to her thigh, meant only to take care of wounds temporarily. She cleaned and bandaged the wounds, then put the elf on her back again.
"For an elf, you're pretty damn heavy,"
She grunted, beginning the trek across the island...
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